Category Archives: Technicalities
Sengebeinskiftetid
Rammemadrasser frå IKEA er så viseleg innretta at når du setter bein på kan du ikkje vippa dei ned i horisontal eller opp igjen, for då får du for stor last på beina i heilt feil retning, og så …
Photo woes
I have a lot of pictures on file somewhere. In roughly 50% of the cases, the picture is not on a disk that is stashed somewhere inaccessible and anyway likely to have failed.
A very few of them are online …
Enden er nær!
Eg var på Elkjøp på Heiane i dag. Dei førte mobiltelefondeodorant.
The Joy of Mac
If cut’n'paste and/or drag-and-drop just stops working on your Mac, delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist and relogin.
Windows on Mac
Installing Windows on Mac turned out to be a perfectly doable thing. There were three hurdles:
Diskutil reported minor errors on the system disk.
Boot from install CD, run Diskutil from pull-down menu.
Partitioning failed due to unmovable files.
Shrinking the partition size …
MySQL
I need to use MySQL in one of the projects at work. Fair enough, databases are useful little thingies. Big thingies. Frustrations mount quickly, though.
Example.
Dataset in text file contains N unique rows which I may want to update now …
New server.
The weblog had to move to another server, for technical reasons. Not for legal reasons. That was right out, I deny that completely. But anyway, you didn’t notice, of course, because the move went without a hitch. No hitches …
Det virkar!
Sånn, no ser det ut til at me er i bizniz. Vel, ikkje heilt, for gamle lenkjer og bilete og slikt er jo ikkje fiksa. Kjem eg til å gidda? Betviles. Men no bur denne fjasevevloggen her. Takk for …
DNS-faen.
Har kjøpt eit domene. Å få det til å peika hit har vore mas, og eg veit framleis ikkje om det framleis er feil eller om det berre er cache som står i vegen (men Håvard seier at det …
New action here.
So we moved on. That is, just testing now. But my university account’s horizon is looming, and so is the disk quota. So we might as well set up elsewhere. So we went here. Will endeavour to move my …
Spambugs, one down.
After discovering that «.» had made the spamword list (no, it wasn’t supposed to be there) and correcting that minor mishap, maybe now will comments work after a fashion.
Kingdom of Loathing